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Channel M is a regional television station, based in Manchester
, England
. It began broadcasting on 14 February 2000 as Manchester Student Television and is owned and operated by the Guardian Media Group
.
station, Channel M was primarily available free-to-air
on terrestrial in parts of Greater Manchester.
In 2004 Channel M launched on the NTL (now part of Virgin Media
) digital cable platform, around Greater Manchester
, mid-Lancashire
& Cheshire
. In April 2006 Channel M launched on digital satellite, the first RSL channel to be do so, where it was broadcast free-to-air across Western Europe from Astra 28.2°E
and was available on Sky. The channel was removed from Sky channel 203 and Virgin Media channel 878 on 1 September 2010.
The channel became the first broadcaster in the region to offer its programmes on demand via broadband TV on its website. The website was closed down in late March 2010.
In January 2009, the broadcasting regulator OFCOM
announced that Channel M would receive a licence to broadcast on Freeview after digital switchover. On 2 December 2009, Channel M ceased broadcasting on analogue
terrestrial television UHF channel 39 (615 MHz) as part of the digital switchover. Around this time, the station announced plans to launch on Freeview (digital terrestrial television); broadcasts began on Monday 12 April 2010.
, Euronews
, Channel M's own productions and the University of Salford
. The Canadian
-sourced output was gradually replaced by in-house Channel M Productions as the station invested and developed more local programming, particularly following the station's launch on digital satellite services in April 2006. Major cutbacks saw most of the station's non-news output axed in May 2009. Remaining GMG production ceased on 19 March 2010, although the channel remains on-air using a mix of archive and acquired programming.
Programming produced by the University of Salford was not affected by the GMG cutbacks of March 2010 and its output remains unchanged. Having broadcast on Channel M since its launch, the university continues to produce five strands of original programming, namely Reel North (short films), Zeitgeist (arts magazine) Grey Matters (studio debate), Hitting Home (documentary) and Wildtrack (wildlife documentary). A weekly compilation of features from the local online TV channel for Cumbria, Lakes TV, was launched shortly after in-house programming ended.
), which later expanded to include breakfast, lunchtime and late evening bulletins as well as a weekly review programme and occasional live specials.
Up until May 2009, GMG also produced highly acclaimed entertainment output including the weekly entertainment round-up City Life, the comedy talk-show Frank Sidebottom's Proper Telly Show and regular music coverage. Programming such as the weekly music show City Life Social and video/computer game review series Re:Loaded helped Channel M to gain interest nationally.
City Life Social, The Great Northern Music Show and In Session were Channel M's main music programmes, often presented by Gerry McLaughlin with Clint Boon as a stand-in host. These programmes usually featured live, acoustic or unplugged studio and outside broadcast performances from alternative
and indie
bands.
Former BBC Radio Manchester
host, Granada
presenter and Factory Records boss Tony Wilson
was due to present a Friday evening music and entertainment show called The New Friday, produced by former Granada producer and BBC Radio Manchester
host Eamonn O'Neill. However, this programme was postponed after Wilson became terminally ill with cancer. Wilson died in August 2007 and the plans for The New Friday were soon abandoned.
City Life Social (previously City Centre Social) then became the station's flagship music show, as Channel M shifted towards a greater focus on live performances within programmes. This policy continued until the music department ceased production in May 2009, shortly after the station announced severe cutbacks in staff and programming.
The cutbacks also affected the station's three-hour breakfast programme Channel M Breakfast
, which had been airing on weekdays since 16 April 2007 and included regional news, weather, travel, sport, features and entertainment. The slot was then used to broadcast live footage of the area's traffic cameras to a simulcast of Real Radio North West. The live footage from the traffic cameras ceased shortly after with just a holding slide shown during the Real radio simulcasts. Other programmes to be axed included Style in the City, City Life, and The Great Manchester Football Show.
On Monday 13 July 2009, Channel M's news coverage was incorporated into a magazine programme entitled Channel M Today, broadcast on weekdays between 4pm & 7pm and presented by chief news anchor Andy Crane
alongside a rotating team of sports and features presenters. The programme, which also featured local sport, features and entertainment coverage, was axed on Friday 19 March 2010.
The majority of the commercials shown on Channel M are produced by local companies attempting to attract a localised audience. One can recognise that many of these commercials are extremely low budget. Large companies like Ikea
and DFS
have also advertised on Channel M, the former during the opening of Greater Manchester's first Ikea store in Ashton-under-Lyne
. Channel M offers businesses an opportunity to create a television advertisement, as the channel also films, edits and produces commercials.
entertainment complex in Manchester city centre
, until Channel M moved to the former Urbis
museum in August 2005.
Channel M News was previously pre-recorded until live bulletins were first broadcast in May 2006. The studio's position on the ground floor of Urbis in Manchester city centre gave a live elevated background shot of the area around Cathedral Gardens
and Manchester Victoria railway station.
The station's production team were based at the offices of the Stockport Express
before moving to Urbis in March 2006. In November 2007, Channel M's news team moved again to the MEN Media headquarters at Spinningfields
, which was used as a secondary studio base for some news bulletins.
The station later moved its in-house transmission and administration facilities from Urbis to GMG Radio
's headquarters at Laser House in Salford Quays.
Studio content produced by Salford University was originally produced at the Adelphi Building in Peru Street, Salford, but is now currently produced at their studios in MediaCity:UK based in Salford Quays.
Following the announcement, Channel M axed all of its stand-alone entertainment, sport and features programming as well as the weekday breakfast show and lunchtime & evening news bulletins. News and sport coverage was incorporated into Channel M Today.
In February 2010, the station's owners Guardian Media Group
were reported to be in talks with staff regarding options for Channel M's future after the company sold off 32 of its regional newspaper titles, including the Manchester Evening News
, to Trinity Mirror
for £44.8 million.
A month later, the station announced its remaining in-house regional programmes, including the flagship magazine show Channel M Today, would cease production by Friday 19 March 2010. Consequently, 29 of the station's 33 staff were made redundant. Several ex-GMG employees have since secured consultancy positions working on Salford University productions produced at the IMC.
The station now airs archived programming, original output from Salford University and simulcasts of Euronews
and Real Radio North West alongside some new programming from independent and third party producers.. The station's in-house transmission and administration facilities are based at Laser House in Salford Quays and managed by GMG's regional radio division.
In late 2010, GMG announced that it was planning to relaunch the station in May 2011 with new local programming. However, these plans have not been enacted as of autumn 2011.
included:
N.B. Imported programmes are no longer broadcast.
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. It began broadcasting on 14 February 2000 as Manchester Student Television and is owned and operated by the Guardian Media Group
Guardian Media Group
Guardian Media Group plc is a company of the United Kingdom owning various mass media operations including The Guardian and The Observer. The Group is owned by the Scott Trust. It was founded as the Manchester Guardian Ltd in 1907 when C. P. Scott bought the Manchester Guardian from the estate of...
.
Coverage
Originally an RSLRestricted Service Licence
A UK Restricted Service Licence , is typically granted to radio stations and television stations broadcasting within the UK to serve a local community or a special event...
station, Channel M was primarily available free-to-air
Free-to-air
Free-to-air describes television and radio services broadcast in clear form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscription or one-off fee...
on terrestrial in parts of Greater Manchester.
In 2004 Channel M launched on the NTL (now part of Virgin Media
Virgin Media
Virgin Media Inc. is a company which provides fixed and mobile telephone, television and broadband internet services to businesses and consumers in the United Kingdom...
) digital cable platform, around Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2.6 million. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the...
, mid-Lancashire
Lancashire
Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...
& Cheshire
Cheshire
Cheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England. Cheshire's county town is the city of Chester, although its largest town is Warrington. Other major towns include Widnes, Congleton, Crewe, Ellesmere Port, Runcorn, Macclesfield, Winsford, Northwich, and Wilmslow...
. In April 2006 Channel M launched on digital satellite, the first RSL channel to be do so, where it was broadcast free-to-air across Western Europe from Astra 28.2°E
Astra 28.2°E
Astra 28.2°E is the name for the group of Astra communications satellites co-located at the 28.2° East position in the Clarke Belt that are owned and operated by SES based in Betzdorf, Luxembourg...
and was available on Sky. The channel was removed from Sky channel 203 and Virgin Media channel 878 on 1 September 2010.
The channel became the first broadcaster in the region to offer its programmes on demand via broadband TV on its website. The website was closed down in late March 2010.
In January 2009, the broadcasting regulator OFCOM
Ofcom
Ofcom is the government-approved regulatory authority for the broadcasting and telecommunications industries in the United Kingdom. Ofcom was initially established by the Office of Communications Act 2002. It received its full authority from the Communications Act 2003...
announced that Channel M would receive a licence to broadcast on Freeview after digital switchover. On 2 December 2009, Channel M ceased broadcasting on analogue
Analog television
Analog television is the analog transmission that involves the broadcasting of encoded analog audio and analog video signal: one in which the message conveyed by the broadcast signal is a function of deliberate variations in the amplitude and/or frequency of the signal...
terrestrial television UHF channel 39 (615 MHz) as part of the digital switchover. Around this time, the station announced plans to launch on Freeview (digital terrestrial television); broadcasts began on Monday 12 April 2010.
Programming
Originally, the main sources of programming were CHUMCHUM Limited
CHUM Limited was a media company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 1945 to 2007. Immediately prior to its acquisition, it held full or joint control of two Canadian television systems — Citytv and A-Channel — comprising 11 local stations, and one CBC Television affiliate, one...
, Euronews
EuroNews
Euronews is an international multilingual news television channel.It covers world news from what it claims to be a 'European' perspective.Criticisms are that the perspective is in fact that of the European Commission - a major and growing funder of Euronews....
, Channel M's own productions and the University of Salford
University of Salford
The University of Salford is a campus university based in Salford, Greater Manchester, England with approximately 20,000 registered students. The main campus is about west of Manchester city centre, on the A6, opposite the former home of the physicist, James Prescott Joule and the Working Class...
. The Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
-sourced output was gradually replaced by in-house Channel M Productions as the station invested and developed more local programming, particularly following the station's launch on digital satellite services in April 2006. Major cutbacks saw most of the station's non-news output axed in May 2009. Remaining GMG production ceased on 19 March 2010, although the channel remains on-air using a mix of archive and acquired programming.
Programming produced by the University of Salford was not affected by the GMG cutbacks of March 2010 and its output remains unchanged. Having broadcast on Channel M since its launch, the university continues to produce five strands of original programming, namely Reel North (short films), Zeitgeist (arts magazine) Grey Matters (studio debate), Hitting Home (documentary) and Wildtrack (wildlife documentary). A weekly compilation of features from the local online TV channel for Cumbria, Lakes TV, was launched shortly after in-house programming ended.
Guardian Media Group programming
From 2004 until July 2009, the station's flagship programme was the 5pm weeknight edition of Channel M News (produced in conjunction with the Manchester Evening NewsManchester Evening News
The Manchester Evening News is a regional daily newspaper covering Greater Manchester in the United Kingdom. It is published every day except Sunday and is owned by Trinity Mirror plc following its sale by Guardian Media Group in early 2010. It has an average daily circulation of 90,973 copies...
), which later expanded to include breakfast, lunchtime and late evening bulletins as well as a weekly review programme and occasional live specials.
Up until May 2009, GMG also produced highly acclaimed entertainment output including the weekly entertainment round-up City Life, the comedy talk-show Frank Sidebottom's Proper Telly Show and regular music coverage. Programming such as the weekly music show City Life Social and video/computer game review series Re:Loaded helped Channel M to gain interest nationally.
City Life Social, The Great Northern Music Show and In Session were Channel M's main music programmes, often presented by Gerry McLaughlin with Clint Boon as a stand-in host. These programmes usually featured live, acoustic or unplugged studio and outside broadcast performances from alternative
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
and indie
Indie (music)
In music, independent music, often shortened to indie music or "indie" is a term used to describe independence from major commercial record labels or their subsidiaries, and an autonomous, Do-It-Yourself approach to recording and publishing....
bands.
Former BBC Radio Manchester
BBC Radio Manchester
BBC Radio Manchester is a BBC Local Radio station broadcasting to Greater Manchester in North West England. It broadcasts 24 hours a day from studios at MediaCityUK in Salford Quays via a transmitter at Holme Moss, with a small repeater at Saddleworth covering Tameside and Saddleworth...
host, Granada
Granada Television
Granada Television is the ITV contractor for North West England. Based in Manchester since its inception, it is the only surviving original ITA franchisee from 1954 and is ITV's most successful....
presenter and Factory Records boss Tony Wilson
Tony Wilson
Anthony Howard Wilson, commonly known as Tony Wilson , was an English record label owner, radio presenter, TV show host, nightclub manager, impresario and journalist for Granada Television and the BBC....
was due to present a Friday evening music and entertainment show called The New Friday, produced by former Granada producer and BBC Radio Manchester
BBC Radio Manchester
BBC Radio Manchester is a BBC Local Radio station broadcasting to Greater Manchester in North West England. It broadcasts 24 hours a day from studios at MediaCityUK in Salford Quays via a transmitter at Holme Moss, with a small repeater at Saddleworth covering Tameside and Saddleworth...
host Eamonn O'Neill. However, this programme was postponed after Wilson became terminally ill with cancer. Wilson died in August 2007 and the plans for The New Friday were soon abandoned.
City Life Social (previously City Centre Social) then became the station's flagship music show, as Channel M shifted towards a greater focus on live performances within programmes. This policy continued until the music department ceased production in May 2009, shortly after the station announced severe cutbacks in staff and programming.
The cutbacks also affected the station's three-hour breakfast programme Channel M Breakfast
Channel M Breakfast
Channel M Breakfast was a regional breakfast television programme, produced by the Greater Manchester local television station, Channel M. Launched on Monday 16 April 2007 and broadcast from the headquarters of Channel M at Urbis in Manchester city centre, the programme covered news, sport,...
, which had been airing on weekdays since 16 April 2007 and included regional news, weather, travel, sport, features and entertainment. The slot was then used to broadcast live footage of the area's traffic cameras to a simulcast of Real Radio North West. The live footage from the traffic cameras ceased shortly after with just a holding slide shown during the Real radio simulcasts. Other programmes to be axed included Style in the City, City Life, and The Great Manchester Football Show.
On Monday 13 July 2009, Channel M's news coverage was incorporated into a magazine programme entitled Channel M Today, broadcast on weekdays between 4pm & 7pm and presented by chief news anchor Andy Crane
Andy Crane
Howard Andrew 'Andy' Crane is an English television and radio presenter, best known for presenting Children's BBC , amongst many others.-Career:...
alongside a rotating team of sports and features presenters. The programme, which also featured local sport, features and entertainment coverage, was axed on Friday 19 March 2010.
Advertising
Channel M's extremely localised audience is unusual for a British television channel. This has promoted an opportunity for local advertising on a Greater Manchester-wide scale.The majority of the commercials shown on Channel M are produced by local companies attempting to attract a localised audience. One can recognise that many of these commercials are extremely low budget. Large companies like Ikea
IKEA
IKEA is a privately held, international home products company that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture such as beds and desks, appliances and home accessories. The company is the world's largest furniture retailer...
and DFS
Dfs (retailer)
DFS, formerly Doncaster Furnishing Stores, is a national furniture retailer in the United Kingdom which specialises in sofas and soft furnishings. It serves the lower end of the furniture market and offers credit terms on its goods.- History :...
have also advertised on Channel M, the former during the opening of Greater Manchester's first Ikea store in Ashton-under-Lyne
Ashton-under-Lyne
Ashton-under-Lyne is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. Historically a part of Lancashire, it lies on the north bank of the River Tame, on undulating land at the foothills of the Pennines...
. Channel M offers businesses an opportunity to create a television advertisement, as the channel also films, edits and produces commercials.
Studios
The channel was originally based at smaller studios in the Triangle shopping mall and the later at the PrintworksThe Printworks
The Printworks is an entertainment venue, located on Withy Grove in Manchester city centre, England. It opened in 2000 and was launched with fireworks and a radio roadshow featuring many local and international acts, headlined by Lionel Richie....
entertainment complex in Manchester city centre
Manchester City Centre
Manchester city centre is the central business district of Manchester, England. It lies within the Manchester Inner Ring Road, next to the River Irwell...
, until Channel M moved to the former Urbis
Urbis
Urbis is an exhibition centre located in Manchester, England. From 2002 to 2010, the centre hosted changing exhibits on popular culture topics including urban living, art, music, fashion, photography and videogames alongside talks, gigs and special events....
museum in August 2005.
Channel M News was previously pre-recorded until live bulletins were first broadcast in May 2006. The studio's position on the ground floor of Urbis in Manchester city centre gave a live elevated background shot of the area around Cathedral Gardens
Cathedral Gardens
Cathedral Gardens is an open space within Manchester City Centre, in North West England. It is bounded by Victoria railway station to the north, Chetham's School of Music to the west, the perimeter of Manchester Cathedral and The Triangle on Fennel Street to the south and Urbis to the...
and Manchester Victoria railway station.
The station's production team were based at the offices of the Stockport Express
Stockport Express
Stockport Express is the local newspaper of Stockport, England. It has a paid-for circulation of 12,635 and is published every Wednesday.The sister free paper the Stockport Times, published every Thursday and distributed to all households in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, has a circulation...
before moving to Urbis in March 2006. In November 2007, Channel M's news team moved again to the MEN Media headquarters at Spinningfields
Spinningfields
Spinningfields is a large business, retail and residential development in Manchester, England that lies in the western portion of the City Centre, between south Deansgate and the River Irwell. The Spinningfields complex is the masterplan of Allied London Properties, a London-based property...
, which was used as a secondary studio base for some news bulletins.
The station later moved its in-house transmission and administration facilities from Urbis to GMG Radio
GMG Radio
GMG Radio is the radio division of the Guardian Media Group. The group is based in Laser House, Salford Quays in Greater Manchester. The advertising division is in Old Trafford, Manchester. John Myers was the Chief Executive Officer, his deputy replaced him in April 2009...
's headquarters at Laser House in Salford Quays.
Studio content produced by Salford University was originally produced at the Adelphi Building in Peru Street, Salford, but is now currently produced at their studios in MediaCity:UK based in Salford Quays.
Cutbacks
On 27 April 2009, Channel M's then-chief executive Mark Dodson announced that the station was looking to make 41 redundancies from its 74 staff and restrict weekday live programming from four programmes (totalling six hours of output) to one three-hour news magazine programme, broadcast between 4pm and 7pm, in order to cut losses. The new live programme, Channel M Today launched on Monday 13 July 2009. A company review carried out by the Guardian Media Group before the announcement recommended that the station should focus on news and general sport programming.Following the announcement, Channel M axed all of its stand-alone entertainment, sport and features programming as well as the weekday breakfast show and lunchtime & evening news bulletins. News and sport coverage was incorporated into Channel M Today.
In February 2010, the station's owners Guardian Media Group
Guardian Media Group
Guardian Media Group plc is a company of the United Kingdom owning various mass media operations including The Guardian and The Observer. The Group is owned by the Scott Trust. It was founded as the Manchester Guardian Ltd in 1907 when C. P. Scott bought the Manchester Guardian from the estate of...
were reported to be in talks with staff regarding options for Channel M's future after the company sold off 32 of its regional newspaper titles, including the Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
The Manchester Evening News is a regional daily newspaper covering Greater Manchester in the United Kingdom. It is published every day except Sunday and is owned by Trinity Mirror plc following its sale by Guardian Media Group in early 2010. It has an average daily circulation of 90,973 copies...
, to Trinity Mirror
Trinity Mirror
Trinity Mirror plc is a large British newspaper and magazine publisher. It is Britain's biggest newspaper group, publishing 240 regional papers as well as the national Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and People, and the Scottish Sunday Mail and Daily Record. Its headquarters are at Canary Wharf in...
for £44.8 million.
A month later, the station announced its remaining in-house regional programmes, including the flagship magazine show Channel M Today, would cease production by Friday 19 March 2010. Consequently, 29 of the station's 33 staff were made redundant. Several ex-GMG employees have since secured consultancy positions working on Salford University productions produced at the IMC.
The station now airs archived programming, original output from Salford University and simulcasts of Euronews
EuroNews
Euronews is an international multilingual news television channel.It covers world news from what it claims to be a 'European' perspective.Criticisms are that the perspective is in fact that of the European Commission - a major and growing funder of Euronews....
and Real Radio North West alongside some new programming from independent and third party producers.. The station's in-house transmission and administration facilities are based at Laser House in Salford Quays and managed by GMG's regional radio division.
In late 2010, GMG announced that it was planning to relaunch the station in May 2011 with new local programming. However, these plans have not been enacted as of autumn 2011.
Current local programming
- Grey Matters
- Hitting Home
- Life As I Know ItLife As I Know itLife As I Know It is a British teen drama series. The series was created by Robyn Forsythe and Bethany Minors, and produced by Matthew Duggan and Robyn Forsythe and premiered on Channel M on 15 May 2010 with episodes airing every Saturday at 9:30pm for the following eight weeks with repeats...
- Reel North
- Wildtrack
- Zeitgeist
Previous in-house programmes
- 30 Minutes of...
- 4 Manchester
- The Biker Show
- Campus Cooking
- Channel M BreakfastChannel M BreakfastChannel M Breakfast was a regional breakfast television programme, produced by the Greater Manchester local television station, Channel M. Launched on Monday 16 April 2007 and broadcast from the headquarters of Channel M at Urbis in Manchester city centre, the programme covered news, sport,...
- Channel M Lunchtime News
- Channel M Late News
- Channel M News Live
- Channel M News Review
- Channel M Playlist
- Channel M Plays Pop
- Channel M Today
- City Centre Social
- The City Debate Show
- City Life
- City Life Comedian of the Year
- City Life Social
- Code XIIICode XIIICode XIII was a regional rugby league programme on Channel M, and was originally presented by Barney, the presenter of Channel M's boxing programme Seconds Out...
- Code XIII: Grassroots
- Community Focus
- Cookin' Impossible
- Crime Team
- Fashion Face Off
- FC United
- Frank Sidebottom's Proper Telly Show
- The Football Debate Show
- The Great Manchester Football Show
- The Great Northern Music Show
- The Homesmine (previously Homesearch)
- I Love Manchester
- In Session
- Inside MCFCInside MCFCInside MCFC was a weekly football television programme, focusing on Manchester City FC and produced by the Greater Manchester television station, Channel M....
- The Jobsmine (previously Jobsearch)
- The Lancashire Cricket Show
- The Latics Football Show
- Lady Lola's Lifeline
- Made in Manchester
- Manchester Exchange
- Manchester Fight Night
- Manchester Unlimited
- M:usic Live
- The Phoenix Ice Hockey Show
- Re:Loaded
- The Run
- Seconds Out
- Sports Central
- Style In The City
- Talking Sharks
- The United Debate Show
Imported programmes
Programmes produced by CHUM TVCHUM Limited
CHUM Limited was a media company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 1945 to 2007. Immediately prior to its acquisition, it held full or joint control of two Canadian television systems — Citytv and A-Channel — comprising 11 local stations, and one CBC Television affiliate, one...
included:
- Star at The Movies
- Arts and Minds
- In Fashion
- Best! Movies! Ever!
- Egos and Icons
- Much Music
- Much In Your SpaceMuch In Your SpaceMuch In Your Space was a reality-tv home renovation program aired on Canadian television station MuchMusic. The show used to be hosted by VJs, Rick Campanelli and George Stroumboulopoulos but when the two VJs went on to further stages in their career, the last episodes of the show were hosted by...
- Fashion Television
N.B. Imported programmes are no longer broadcast.
Royal Television Society (North West) Awards
Channel M programmes have been short-listed for RTS (NW) Awards on numerous occasions since 2001 and have won a total of seven times - once for GMG-produced output (Andy Crane) and six times for the University of Salford. In addition to programme awards, the station's website won the RTS Best Online award in 2008.Programme winners
- Hitting Home: Final Clearance - Best Cable, Satellite or RSL programme (2001)
- Channel M - Best Newcomers (2005) (Three Channel M staffers were nominated for the award - GMG reporter Laura Fogg, Salford University presenter Gerry McLaughlin and the production team for Reel North)
- Hitting Home: Displaced - Best Regional Programme (2005)
- Reel North - Best Regional Programme (2006)
- Nigel Hoar & Angela Byrne - Best Newcomers (2008)
- Zeitgeist - Best Low Budget Programme (2009)
- Andy Crane - Best Regional Presenter (2009)